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She hath flung / Her all upon the venture of her vow, / And in her trust leans meekly, like a flower, / By the still river tempted from its stem / And on its bosom floating. / WILLIS.
Mary did not feel quite equal to face her cousin and his friend in her / present state of mind; therefore, on the first movement making itself / heard in the direction of the library, she took alarm and escaped up / stairs, leaving Trevor, who did not suffer the same shamefaceness, to / undergo the encounter alone. Mary first went to her own room, then / shortly after, trying to look as if nothing had happened, proceeded to / Mrs. Trevyllian's apartment, to wish her cousin good night. She found / the ladies both reclining on their respective sofas, and was cordially / welcomed by each, as if by this time they had began to have had enough / of each other's uninterrupted society.